Making Progress: The Women in Conservation Technology Programme, Kenya
14 November 2023 6:53pm
Volunteering at Kijabe Environment Volunteers (KENVO)
14 November 2023 6:52pm
Awarded the prestigious Chevening Scholarship Award to Study MSc Conservation Biology
14 November 2023 6:51pm
Documenting the Birds of Lewa-Borana Landscape
14 November 2023 6:50pm
Researching on the Electric Rhino Fence Effects on other Wildlife Species in Loisaba Conservancy
14 November 2023 6:49pm
Citizen Science as a Tool to Enhance Biodiversity Conservation in the Tana River Primate National Reserve (TRPNR)
14 November 2023 6:48pm
Researching Seagrass Habitats Along the Kenyan Coast
14 November 2023 6:47pm
Game Changing Research Equipment for Masters Project
14 November 2023 6:47pm
Adaptable Defenses: How Yellow Fever (Acacia Xanthophloea) Trees Respond to Pressure from Herbivores
14 November 2023 6:46pm
Creating Awareness on Bushmeat Offences Using Local Barazas and SMS
14 November 2023 6:44pm
Grey Crowned Cranes Census, Kenya 2023
14 November 2023 6:44pm
Tracking the Strides: Reticulated Giraffe in Mugie Conservancy
14 November 2023 6:43pm
Software Engineer at Rainforest Connection & Arbimon
14 November 2023 12:30am
Seeking Advice for Biodiversity Methodology
10 November 2023 3:58pm
The Ultimate Biodiversity Fact Sheet. 14 stats to convince people about the importance of nature.
9 November 2023 5:10pm
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The person in front of you is not convinced that nature is that important.
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Seeking AudioMoth in SF Bay Area
6 November 2023 8:48pm
8 November 2023 10:28pm
You're awesome Tim, thank you! However, we ordered another from GroupGets yesterday and it's arriving tomorrow, so we (should) be good to go : ) Now if I can only get LabMaker to reimburse me for the one that didn't arrive, that would fix everything. Unfortunately they've been incredibly slow to reply ....sigh
Looking for tips about masters in Wildlife forensics and possible places to get some work experience.
10 September 2016 10:21am
5 November 2023 10:35am
Did you find anything?
7 November 2023 8:48pm
I have not personally done this program but I was considering it at one time. The University of Florida has a virtual wildlife forensics program that I have heard great things about!
8 November 2023 1:30am
Yes, I considered that one as well. At the time of this post (2016) the full masters wasn't available yet, only the online certificate courses. Unfortunately, both the masters and certificate courses were to expensive for me at the time.
Insight; a secure online platform designed for sharing experiences of conservation tool use.
7 November 2023 1:01pm
A secure platform designed for those working to monitor & protect natural resources. Insight facilitates sharing experience, knowledge & tools to increase efficiency & effectiveness in conservation. By sharing we reduce time & money spent to find, test, & implement solutions.
Replacement (cheaper) foam mic covers
23 October 2023 3:35pm
3 November 2023 3:04pm
Hi! I got these ones from Amazon. Also, I was tired of creatures eating them so I created a shield using window mesh screen
6 November 2023 9:31am
Hi - thanks for your reply. I've been thinking along the same lines though unsure where I'd purchase 'acoustic foam' from. I've made 'dead cats' before for some of my active monitoring mics and that material is not too difficult to source but the only acoustic foam I've come across is the type for deadening sound in studio etc. - the exact opposite of what I want!! The search continues ....!
6 November 2023 9:33am
Brilliant - thank you.! Great idea about the screen too - I'm replacing some of them monthly so may try that myself. Have you found any issues with the mesh generating any tones with wind?
TWS2023 - get in touch
5 November 2023 8:13pm
5 November 2023 9:04pm
I'm registered with the TWS2023 app, so feel free to nudge me there as well
Payment for ecosystem services - mobile money case study?
27 October 2023 2:59pm
30 October 2023 10:23am
Huge thank you Carly!
3 November 2023 12:36pm
The folks at AB Entheos in Nairobi are also looking at wild life damage insurance https://ab-entheos.co.ke/
5 November 2023 4:09pm
Thanks Arky!
DeepFaune: a software for AI-based identification of mammals in camera-trap pictures and videos
14 July 2023 3:14pm
24 October 2023 8:46pm
Hello to all, new to this group. This is very exciting technology. can it work for ID of individual animals? we are interested in Ai for identifying individual jaguars (spots) and andean Bears (face characteristics). Any recommendation? contact? thanks!
German
25 October 2023 8:57am
That's a very interesting question and use case (I'm not from deepfaune). I'm playing with this at the moment and intend to integrate it into my other security software that can capture and send video alerts. I should have this working within a few weeks I think.
The structure of that software is that it is two stage, the first stage identifies that there is an animal and it's bounding box and then there's a classification stage. I intend to merge the two stages so that it behaves like a yolo model so that the output is bounding boxes as well as what type of animal it is.
However, my security software can cascade models. So if you were able to train a single stage classifier that identifies your particular bears, then you could cascade all of these models in my software to generate an alert with a video saying which bear it was.
4 November 2023 4:51am
Hi @GermanFore ,
I work with the BearID Project on individual identification of brown bears from faces. More recently we worked on face detection across all bear species and ran some tests with identifying Andean bears. You can find details in the paper I linked below. We plan to do more work with Andean bears in 2024.
I would love to connect with you. I'll send you a message with my email address.
Regards,
Ed
Democratising Access to Earth Observation Data, Saving Wildlife across East Africa with Digital Earth Africa's Dr. Kenneth Mubea
3 November 2023 1:24pm
15 May 2024 10:16am
PiCAM: A Raspberry Pi-based open-source, low-power camera system for monitoring plant phenology in Arctic environments
1 November 2023 5:34pm
7 November 2023 9:10pm
I have an AudioMoth that they are welcome to. I'm down in Moss Beach (just north of Half Moon Bay).